A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!